Example sentences of "we [vb past] [verb] it in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 2 | Well only because we 'd seen it in the shop |
| 3 | We 'd kept it in cash . |
| 4 | We forgot to put it in last night anyway . |
| 5 | I thumbed through the aeroplane magazine looking for articles on pre-ski protuberances — curiously there were none , and we decided to ignore it in the hope that it would go down roughly when the plane did . |
| 6 | But at least we managed to keep it in the UK , although we had lots of offers to go abroad . |
| 7 | I know we did saw it in the fridge . |
| 8 | In view of the afternoon 's exertions , tea-time must have been a difficult moment for tired guests , for as Princess Metternich noted : ‘ The Empress 's teas seemed to us a little drawn out and I must frankly admit that we preferred to take it in our own rooms by the fire with our friends while smoking a quiet cigarette . |
| 9 | It was supposed to take three to five days , but we aimed to do it in two . |
| 10 | We had seen it in the other tombs as well , sometimes carved on top of the paintings . |
| 11 | we knew that , and we had to sing it in French . |
| 12 | ‘ Point Counter Point — Contrepoint as we had to call it in our rigid language — for the third time I might add . ’ |
| 13 | We felt that Navan Resources should have made earlier contact with us to let us know that there was gold here , before we had to hear it in that way , ’ Mary Catherine Heanue said . |
| 14 | ‘ It 'll do , ’ he said , with his customary offhand modesty , as we stood admiring it in the church . |